One clear morning in May, Nick Thorpe left his Edinburgh flat, ducked off the commuter route and hitched a ride aboard a little white canal boat, heading west t
Hunched exhausted at his computer one Monday morning, workaholic Nick Thorpe has reached the end of his tether. Fearing for his health and family life, he knows
8 Men and a Duck charts the hilarious and unnerving Pacific voyage as it rolls between waves of high drama and high farce: from the five-day launch off a Chilea